OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Metabolism-Clinical and Experimental is 52. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Characterization of Lipoprotein(a) Measurement in a Large US Healthcare Dataset	815
The Conicity Index in Identification of Cardiorenal Metabolic Syndrome Patients at Increased Risk for Complications	635
EMI Not Just BMI: Unveiling Hidden Diabetes Risk Among Apparently Healthy U.S. Young Adults	234
Lifestyle and Affective Emotions in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, With or Without COVID-19 History	222
MASLD may influence female-specific cancer risk indirectly through shared metabolic pathways rather than direct causation	208
Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions of Obesity & Agonists of the Glucagon, GLP-1 & GIP Receptors	179
A Phase II, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-finding study of survodutide (BI 456906) in people living with overweight/obesity	168
The role of active vitamin D in preventing sarcopenia—Authors' reply	139
Editorial Board	139
Comparative efficacy of Gan & Lee insulin aspart (GL-ASP) and EU-marketed insulin aspart (NN-ASP), when combined with metformin, in patients with diabetes mellitus: Post-hoc analyses from a multic	137
Editorial Board	130
Prevalence of Hypercortisolism in Patients with Difficult-to-Control Type 2 Diabetes and High Blood Pressure: Results from CATALYST	125
Natural selection signatures of 65 syndromic and 8 monogenic obesity genes in 7 ethnic groups do not support the thrifty genotype hypothesis	123
Serine active site containing protein 1 depletion alters lipid metabolism and protects against high fat diet-induced obesity in mice	119
Sepsis-induced lipid droplet accumulation enhances antibacterial innate immunity through mechanisms dependent on DGAT-1 and interferon-beta	118
The risk and benefit of revisional vs. primary metabolic- bariatric surgery and drug therapy - A narrative review	115
PRDM16 exerts critical role in myocardial metabolism and energetics in type 2 diabetes induced cardiomyopathy	115
Roles of malate and aspartate in gluconeogenesis in various physiological and pathological states	102
Angiopoietin-like protein 8 mediates inflammation and fibrosis of tubular cells in diabetic kidney disease progression by interacting with Akt2	91
Brown adipose tissue-derived metabolites and their role in regulating metabolism	90
PCSK9 in metabolism and diseases	89
Increased activity of the metalloproteinase PAPP-A promotes diabetes-induced glomerular hypertrophy	89
Interplay of skeletal muscle and adipose tissue: sarcopenic obesity	86
Effect of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and co-agonists on body composition: Systematic review and network meta-analysis	79
Effects of intraduodenal infusion of lauric acid and L-tryptophan, alone and combined, on glucoregulatory hormones, gastric emptying and glycaemia in healthy men	78

Protein oxidation in non-exercising healthy adults under varying dietary conditions: Physiological determinants, effects on fuel partitioning, and implications for body weight regulation	77
Editorial Board	77
Leveraging Automated Machine Learning to provide NAFLD screening diagnosis: Proposed machine learning models	76
Blood based biomarkers as non-invasive screening tools for hepatic fibrosis in subjects with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus	70
Association between hypertension and severity of NAFLD among adults with obesity	70
Corrigendum to “FUNDC1 insufficiency sensitizes high fat diet intake-induced cardiac remodeling and contractile anomaly through ACSL4-mediated ferroptosis” [Metabolism 122 (September 2021) 154840]	68
Exercise training increases skeletal muscle sphingomyelinases and affects mitochondrial quality control in men with type 2 diabetes	67
RETRACTED: Loss of mitochondrial adaptation associates with deterioration of mitochondrial turnover and structure in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease	67
Impact of fasting on the AMPK and PGC-1α axis in rodent and human skeletal muscle: A systematic review	66
Risk of Obesity, Diabetes, Insulin resistance, and Dyslipidemia among Irritable Bowel Syndrome patients	66
The relationship between Vitamin D level and Sarcopenia: Insights from a Korean Population Study	65
Relationship between Obesity Indices Measured with Body Composition Analyzer and Carotid Artery Plaques in Korean Middle-Aged Men	64
Potential impact of Helicobacter pylori and metabolic syndrome-related non-alcoholic fatty liver disease on cardio-cerebrovascular disease	63
Higher Resource Utilization And Mortality Among Patients With Heart Failure Admited With Diabetic Ketoacidosis And Chronic Kidney Disease	63
Comprehensive assessment of the causal effects and metabolite mediators of glucose-lowering drug targets on cardio-renal-liver-metabolic health	62
Uncovering mechanisms of thiazolidinediones on osteogenesis and adipogenesis using spatial fluxomics	62
Fatty acid metabolism: The crossroads in intestinal homeostasis and tumor	60
Pharmacologically targeting fatty acid synthase-mediated de novo lipogenesis alleviates osteolytic bone loss by directly inhibiting osteoclastogenesis through suppression of STAT3 palmitoylation and R	59
Metabolic and immune dysfunction at the crossroads between type 1 diabetes and neurodegeneration	59
Sterol carrier protein 2 in lipid metabolism and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Pathophysiology, molecular biology, and potential clinical implications	58
Hepatocyte TIPE2 is a fasting-induced Raf-1 inactivator that drives hepatic gluconeogenesis to maintain glucose homeostasis	58
Early metabolomic, lipid and lipoprotein changes in response to medical and surgical therapeutic approaches to obesity	58
Role of mitochondria in pathogenesis and therapy of renal fibrosis	58
Exercise alleviates neovascular age-related macular degeneration by inhibiting AIM2 inflammasome in myeloid cells	58
Risk of incident diabetes after COVID-19 infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis	56
Role of Coronary Artery Calcium in the Association Between Hormone Replacement Therapy Status and Incident Death and Cardiovascular Disease: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis	54
Editorial Board	54
Neuroprotective effect of small extracellular vesicle-mediated targeting of AMPKα2 in cerebral ischemia	52